Showing serene images of family life on a cattle farm south of Perth, and already living in semi-isolation, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah captures, on his smartphone, poignant and fun insights into parenting and creating.
In our July/August magazine we profiled ten artists, and asked each artist to document their life with their smartphone. Abdullah’s snaps are filled with family, home and his studio, perfectly complementing our profile, where he discusses life on the cattle farm and the inspiration behind some of his most emotional works.
French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is showing now at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist Archie Moore has won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the Venice Biennale for his monumental work, kith and kin. It marks the first time Australia has won the award in the event’s 130-year history.
Endlessly inventive, the work of Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based artist Scotty So spans photography, painting, video work, and drag performance. With a dual exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, So talks about pageantry, begonias and queens.
The three separate exhibitions that come together in Tales of Land & Sea, speak to Arthur Boyd’s sense of justice, his desire to break down barriers between class and cultures, and his deep love of the ancient myths that still speak to humanity.
Belinda Winkler and Kevin Perkins AM use the southern Tasmanian landscape as inspiration for a series of works that contrast curve and plane, which are now showing at Bett Gallery.
In marking 20 years of the proppaNOW artist collective, Tony Albert, Megan Cope, Gordon Hookey, Lily Eather, and Warraba Weatherall gathered for an incredibly insightful and honest conversation about contemporary Aboriginal art in Australia today.
